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Call for setting up mandatory council for disabled people

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KARACHI: Representatives of physically and mentally challenged persons have demanded that the government implement the law on the welfare of people with disabilities and set up a council to rehabilitate such persons as required under the law. Speaking to Dawn, they said that the Sindh Differently-abled Persons (Employment, Rehabilitation and Welfare) Act 2014 was passed […]


PTA launches ‘mobile education’

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakis-tan Tele-communication Authority (PTA) launched on Tuesday an Internet website ‘Smart Pakistan’ accessible on cell phones. The website: www.smartpakistan.pk will serve as a repository and directory of mobile applications related to health and education etc. This will serves as a starting site for web users and will open links to other sites, the […]


Similar heatwave may scorch Pakistan in 2016

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ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Tuesday was informed that there is a 90% chance of another heatwave scorching Pakistan next year. The NA Standing Committee on Climate Change was informed of the probability by the Climate Change Ministry’s Secretary Arif Ahmed Khan. This was in response to member Imran Zafar Laghari’s allegation that the government […]